general question about packages and ports working together

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:58:08AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 8:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> 
> > > Fetching
> > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/All/k
> > > delibs-3.5.1_1.tbz... Done.
> > > pkg_add: package 'kdelibs-3.5.1_1' conflicts with kdelibs-nocups-3.5.5
> > > pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s)
> > > or -f to f
> > > orce installation
> > > pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'kdelibs-3.5.1_1' failed!
> > > vagabund#
> >
> > That's the problem, you have a conflicting package (kdelibs built with
> > WITHOUT_CUPS set) installed.  If you really want to use packages
> > you'll need to revert that to the standard setting of including cups
> > support.
> 
> Well, that and he's trying to install -RELEASE packages on a -RELEASE system 
> with -STABLE ports.  How does one tell ports to install -STABLE packages - 
> is that uname-dependent?

Yeah, if uname = *-STABLE it gets the stable packages.  You can just
set PACKAGESITE if you want to use the poorly-tested but updated
stable packages on a release system.

Kris
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